Apple doesn't leak their product plans in advance of the event and look where that has got them. In fact that could be a strategy: DJ lineup release, a black turtleneck event, Monday night, main event. Or your could only disclose the lineup to volunteer demoopers.

in all seriousness, the state of nevada does have a point if Name Brand, Superstar DJ's are ADVERTISING their sets and times and locations on the playa in Defaultia beforehand....(Oh, Hello FuckBook....)

and there is a GUIDE as to when/where these superstar DJs will be playing available online in one neat package...the state of nevada can easily argue that a SCHEDULE of Musical Performers = A Music Festival and Hence, should be Taxed as such, as opposed to it's current status.

Maybe trade a backstage pass, early entry and a commissary pass in exchange for not publishing the schedule? And convert to a nonprofit sooner rather than later? It is an "educational" "religion", right?

I used to reliously get messed up in the 60's and 70's so Im going to Burningman for my 1st time to rekindle my old religion

“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

I think that most people who think they are "atheists" are really "anti-Christians", since their only frame of religious reference is Christianity, which is one of teh most twisted religions on the planet.

A "spiritual" experience may be simply the sense of awe seeing the gigantic flames leaping out of the man, and celebrating this among 70,000 of your closest friends.

Do you return to Defaultia with a different point of view or feeling? Most religious ceremonies try - and usually fail - to create that elevated sense.

The experience of the sublime involves a self-forgetfulness where personal fear is replaced by a sense of well-being and security when confronted with an object exhibiting superior might, and is similar to the experience of the tragic. The "tragic consciousness" is the capacity to gain an exalted state of consciousness from the realization of the unavoidable suffering destined for all men and that there are oppositions in life that can never be resolved, most notably that of the "forgiving generosity of deity" subsumed to "inexorable fate".

I think one of the things that impressed me most about BM, and to a great extent ePlaya, was that I found it nearly devoid of spirituality. Yeah, there's the Man and the there's a Temple, and there are these pseudo-Pagan rituals and all that, but they're really just... knock-offs of the "real thing." It's like those sea monsters and boats that float around on the open playa: it's great because we know it's not real, and yet it's awesome all the same. And all the symbolism, the themes, the art...? It's like one awesome feint to throw the outside observers off.

I was fooled. I had mixed up Burning Man with the Rainbow Family Gathering, thinking it was a collection of hippies sitting in circles and bitching about what hippies bitch about. When I arrived, I found that nothing matched my preconceptions. Instead, we have a nice festival that makes no apologies for what it is. There's no bitching about the pollution it causes, the lack of "spiritual" music and ritual, penance and sacrifice, etc. Rather, it's people wanting to make something great for the sake of making something great, and also why the "principles" seem to actually work: you're not doing it to fulfill some obligation, or some payment for the sin of enjoying yourself, or because some deeper force is watching what you do. No. You're doing it because you want to. It's like gifting something: it's not an exchange of presents, it's given.

Maybe people are "spiritual" because they can't just enjoy the moment for what it is. Looking in from the outside, maybe it seems that way too: What the hell is going on here? These guys can't be enjoying themselves [i]that much without feeling guilty about it or doing it for some other motive.[/i]

But that's how it is.

So fuck that spirituality bullshit, and stop ruining the moment with illusions of deeper meaning. All the meaning you need is in front of you. Enjoy it while it lasts.

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens

There is a huge difference between spiritual and religion. Yes, religion can and does feed on guilt, but spirituality (at least to me) does not. Perhaps it's just how I describe the feeling of being in the moment and that connection I get with myself when I create art or bond with another person. Perhaps we all say the same things, but with different words.

One thing I do know is that I don't belittle someone else for their thoughts and or feelings. My spirituality/religiousness is mine. Your's is yours. You having your beliefs in no way threatens mine and I have no desire to put you or your beliefs down or make fun of them. They just are.

When the only tool you got is a hammer, every problem looks like a hippie.

Mmmmmm I love the smell of Burning Man - Token

Getting overly dramatic about the ticket sale process is so 2012. - Maladroit

One thing I do know is that I don't belittle someone else for their thoughts and or feelings. My spirituality/religiousness is mine. Your's is yours. You having your beliefs in no way threatens mine and I have no desire to put you or your beliefs down or make fun of them. They just are.

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge? " I am a controlled substance". Savannah.

One thing I do know is that I don't belittle someone else for their thoughts and or feelings. My spirituality/religiousness is mine. Your's is yours. You having your beliefs in no way threatens mine and I have no desire to put you or your beliefs down or make fun of them. They just are.

One of the many reasons why I love this woman

Well said, I'm in total agreement!

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal TaoThe name that can be named is not the eternal nameThe nameless is the origin of Heaven and EarthThe named is the mother of myriad thingsThus, constantly without desire, one observes its essenceConstantly with desire, one observes its manifestationsThese two emerge together but differ in nameThe unity is said to be the mysteryMystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal TaoThe name that can be named is not the eternal nameThe nameless is the origin of Heaven and EarthThe named is the mother of myriad thingsThus, constantly without desire, one observes its essenceConstantly with desire, one observes its manifestationsThese two emerge together but differ in nameThe unity is said to be the mysteryMystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders